Club CDFreaks - Knowledge is Power - View Single Post - URGENT HELP REQUIRED

MetalSlayerX · 10-02-2007

Like bevills1 said, you should be able to access your HDD fine if you have your Master & Slave drives set correctly. Windows should show your drive when you boot back up on your 80GB HDD. If it shows it as unformatted then most likely your drive has corruption/damaged index/damaged tables/damaged partitions. The only way to fix the problem is:
1. Fix the damaged index/table/partitions
2. Retrieve the data with software
3. Reformat the HDD (you would lose your data)
Otherwise your HDD is damaged beyond repairs. I always keep an external usb/firewire case around because sometimes, you never know when it will help you recover your files. You could possibly recover your HDD files with an external case or you can try software. Get Data Back NTFS/FAT Free trial Of course software is not free but sometimes it works to recover your files. I have recovered one of my friend's data files with this software before due to damaged indexes and partitions. And like Steve said, make sure you have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed, SP2 has support for breaking the 137GB barrier on HDD. Otherwise your drive may show up as unformatted.

10-02-2007	#6 (permalink)
MetalSlayerX CD Freaks Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 214	Re: URGENT HELP REQUIRED - Saving HDD after Reinstallation of XP Like bevills1 said, you should be able to access your HDD fine if you have your Master & Slave drives set correctly. Windows should show your drive when you boot back up on your 80GB HDD. If it shows it as unformatted then most likely your drive has corruption/damaged index/damaged tables/damaged partitions. The only way to fix the problem is: 1. Fix the damaged index/table/partitions 2. Retrieve the data with software 3. Reformat the HDD (you would lose your data) Otherwise your HDD is damaged beyond repairs. I always keep an external usb/firewire case around because sometimes, you never know when it will help you recover your files. You could possibly recover your HDD files with an external case or you can try software. Get Data Back NTFS/FAT Free trial Of course software is not free but sometimes it works to recover your files. I have recovered one of my friend's data files with this software before due to damaged indexes and partitions. And like Steve said, make sure you have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed, SP2 has support for breaking the 137GB barrier on HDD. Otherwise your drive may show up as unformatted. __________________ We are not mind readers, we can't help you if we don't know exactly what you are trying to do. My PC: Windows Vista Ultimate Retail \| Intel E6600 Retail \| Intel 975XBX2 [Bios 2674] Motherboard Retail \| 4GB OCZ FLexXLC DDR2 PC 6400 Retail 4-4-4-15 Timings \| HIS X1950XTX 512MB (stole this from my bro lol) Retail \| Dell 2007FP 20.1" Monitor 1600x1200 \| Thermaltake 750W PSU \| Lian Li Silver PC-68 USB Case Plextor 716-SA April 2005 2yrs Old \| Plextor Premium April 2005 2yrs Old Drive is laying around somewhere \| LiteOn LH-20A1H December 2006 Good Scanner/Okay Burner \| Samsung SH-S183L February 2006 Good Scanner/Solid Burns \| LG GSA-H42N February 2006 Can't Scan/Solid Burns